An important healthcare deadline is fast approaching, but many Americans appear to be either unconcerned or in the dark about how that deadline can and will affect them.
Open enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, ends March 31. And people who haven't signed up for heath...

Major retailers like Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are not the only ones worried about a torrent of holiday customers. The Obama Administration has quietly scaled back its marketing efforts for Healthcare.gov, The New York Times reported.
Officials are apparently afraid the...

As you might expect, for some of the "usual suspects" in the healthcare industry are doing quite well as a result of the Affordable Health Act, a.k.a. Obamacare.
Unitedhealth Group (NYSE: UNH) and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP), two major insurers that are prominent blue chips, come to mind. And there...

Markets finally seem to be aware that a debt ceiling is coming. There probably won’t be as much of a sell off as was witnessed saw in 2011, when markets dropped more than 15 percent, because the chaos is now predicted.
Helping to simplify things was a lack of economic data on the day.
The...

My employer recently changed healthcare carriers, choosing plans that were more affordable, and adding variety to what had previously been offered. When they handed us the thick packet of paperwork, we scratched our heads in collective puzzlement. PPO? HSA? OMG, SMH! It was all Greek to us. ...